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Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television

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  • © 2007

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. La Belle Juive

  3. Spectacular American Bodies

  4. Passing as “Real”

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About this book

This book exposes and traces a previously unrecognized performance tradition of extraordinary Jewish women in the Diaspora, from Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt in Nineteenth Century France to Roseanne and Sandra Bernhard in late Twentieth Century America.

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'Mock's book, is an ambitious 'cornucopia' of ideas and challenges to received wisdom on Jewishness, gender, sexuality, identity, performance, comedy, celebrity culture, and Freud. It reinvigorates the study of gender and performance, of race and culture, of historiographic practice in performance through the prism of the work of a wide range of Jewish women performers from stage and screen actors to stand up comics. In tracing a history, Jewishness, the female and performance is its subject, but its value and originality also lies in the book's resonance as a wider cultural and intellectual study.' - Viv Gardner, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester

About the author

ROBERTA MOCK is Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Faculty of Arts at the University of Plymouth, UK.

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